Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence, chapter 9, with many thanks to our reader, Brenda Dayne.

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Literary Links of interest for this chapter:

• Map of NY neighborhoods
• a family landau
• Dante
• Petrarch
• Ruskiin
• John Addington Symonds
• Vernon Lee’s “Euphorion“
• English painters of the present day: essays by J. Beavington Atkinson, Sidney Colvin, P.G. Hamerton, W.M. Rossetti, and Tom Taylor
• The Renaissance by Walter Pater
• Botticelli
• Fra Angelico
• pampas grass
• Randolph Rogers statuettes
• Jacqueminot roses
• Buhl table
• gilt vitrine
• Saxe collections
• verrà
• brougham drawn by a big roan
• des quartiers excentriques
• spill
• attar-of-roses

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